Pursuing Life Through Artform

||Ashe here ||DemiGirl|| INFJ || Libra Rising/Taurus Sun/Gemini Moon || personal blog for psychology, astrology, and a lot of art IG: _artbunnie

[artbunnie]

Stephie and I are on big adventures!!

[artbunnie]

It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[blackthornandash]

The Wheel of the Year

❄️Yule

Yule Correspondences

Colors: Red, green, white, and gold

Lunar Phase: Dark moon or new moon

Plants & Herbs: Mistletoe, holly, wintergreen, ivy, poinsettia, pine, cedar, fir, spruce, juniper, birch, orange, cinnamon, clove, frankincense, and myrrh

Crystals & Stones: Amber, emerald, bloodstone, red jasper, garnet, ruby, moonstone, and diamond

Animals: Goats, boars, reindeer, bears, wolves, stags, squirrels, owls, ravens, robins, and cardinals

Foods: Spiced cider and mulled wine, gingerbread, roasted meats, apples, oranges, winter squash, root veggies, nuts, dried fruits, and sun-shaped bread

Altar Decorations: Decorated Yule log, garlands and wreaths made from evergreens, mistletoe spheres, seasonal greenery, a bowl of wassail, and candles in red and green

Rituals: Inner reflection, purification, grounding, and honoring solar energy

Celebration Ideas: Set up a Yule altar, craft your own Yule log, weave garlands or wreaths from evergreens, make mistletoe or holly decorations, bake cookies, create ornaments from dried fruits or gingerbread.

🦢Imbolc

Imbolc Correspondences

Colors: Brown, lavender, light blue, green, pink, white, gray

Lunar Phase: New moon or waxing crescent moon

Plants & Herbs: Snowdrops, dandelions, chamomile, basil, bay, benzoin, rosemary, angelica, myrrh, cinnamon, cedar, rowan, vanilla

Crystals & Stones: Selenite, amethyst, blue lace agate, rose quartz, clear quartz, rhodonite, turquoise, bloodstone, onyx, ametrine

Animals: Sheep, lambs, swans, snakes, cows, bears, stags, and any animals in hibernation

Foods: Oats, grains, breads, bread pudding, poppy, pumpkin, and sunflower seeds, dairy, eggs, pork, potatoes, onions, leeks, garlic, shallots, fermented foods, soups, stews, apple cider, spiced wines, and herbal teas

Altar Decorations: Acorns, brooms, Brighid’s cross, candles, snowflakes, white flowers, corn dollies, green wreaths, sun symbols, and living plants

Ritual: Awakening, cleansing, protection, divination, home blessing, and healing

Celebration Ideas: Create an Imbolc altar, perform spring cleaning, engage in spiritual purification, craft a dream sachet, plan your garden, work with fire, begin a new project, start a craft or hobby and host a joyful Imbolc feast

🐇Ostara

Ostara Correspondences:

Colors: pastel pinks, greens, yellows, whites, and light blues.

Lunar Phase: the first quarter moon.

Plants & Herbs: crocus, tulips, daffodils, dandelions, violets, primrose, peony, hyacinth, lilies, narcissus, echinacea, goldenseal, hibiscus, honeysuckle, clover, hyssop, alder, birch, and dogwood.

Crystals & Stones: Connect with the season using stones such as rose quartz, jade, selenite, rhodonite, sunstone, aventurine, moss agate, amethyst, aquamarine, and bloodstone.

Animals: rabbits, butterflies, ladybugs, snakes, caterpillars, dragons, and newborn creatures like chicks, lambs, ducklings, and calves.

Foods: Embrace spring’s bounty with eggs, leafy greens (like dandelion), seeds, sprouts, lamb, rabbit, olives, fruits, yogurt, honeycakes, cupcakes, milk & honey, hot cross buns, mead, and fruit wines.

Altar Decorations: Decorate with painted eggs, flower bulbs, fresh blooms, living plants, seed packets, black and white candles for balance, a Rose of Jericho, and other sun-and-moon imagery.

Ritual: Focus on intentions related to fertility, fresh starts, creativity, growth, playful energy, prosperity, divination, and renewal.

Celebration Ideas: Celebrate by building a seasonal altar, painting eggs, spring cleaning or cleansing your space, gathering wildflowers, preparing a feast, trying oomancy (egg divination), designing a magical garden, or charging seeds with intentions to plant during Beltane.

🍎Beltane

Beltane Correspondences:

Colors: red, pink, green, blue, gold, and yellow

Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous moon

Plants & Herbs: oak, birch, hawthorn, elder, ash, rowan, blackthorn, holly, willow, yew, cedar, dogwood, hazel, jasmine, rose, lilac, honeysuckle, daffodil, primrose, tansy, St. John’s wort, snapdragon, flox, woodruff, meadowsweet, blessed thistle, rue, nettle, flaxseed, mushroom, radish, almond, fireweed

Crystals & Stones: rose quartz, carnelian, moonstone, citrine, garnet, emerald, amber, malachite, beryl, tourmaline, and black obsidian.

Animal: cattle, goats, horses, sheep, rabbits, cats, bees, and butterflies

Foods: leafy greens, almond-based breads, oat cakes, strawberries, cherries, and May wine—reflecting nourishment and earth’s renewal.

Altar Decorations: fresh blooms, candles, honey, milk, oats, stone fruits, sea salt, goblets, symbols of fertility and fire, antlers, horns, swords, arrows, and lances.

Ritual: abundance, love and fertility, nurturing connections, protection of the home and land, and communion with nature through divination.

Celebration Ideas: creating a Beltane altar, collecting dew at dawn, crafting floral crowns, planting new life, maypole dancing, lighting ritual fire and gathering with others for a festive bonfire or seasonal meal.

☀️Lilith

Litha Correspondences:

Colors: Gold, orange, yellow, red, white, green, blue

Moon Phase: Full moon

Plants & Herbs: Sunflower, calendula, St. John’s wort, dandelion, rosemary, bay, lavender, sage, mint, basil, chamomile, fennel, mugwort, rose, oats, rue, mistletoe, oak, yarrow, star anise, cinnamon, rowan

Crystals & Stones: Sunstone, citrine, carnelian, amber, lapis lazuli, tiger’s eye, pyrite, fluorite

Animals: Bees, butterflies, fireflies, horses, songbirds

Foods: Fresh summer produce, cheese, honeycakes, mead, sun-dried items, sun tea

Altar Decorations: Fresh flowers, symbols of the sun

Rituals: Love workings, divination, spiritual protection

Celebration Ideas: Watch the sunrise, create an altar, craft charms or herb pouches, cleanse with water, make a solar wheel or sun catcher, burn your Yule wreath, build a festive fire, feast, dance

🌾Lammas

Lammas Correspondences:

Colors: Gold, yellow, bronze, orange, red, earthy browns

Moon Phase: Waning gibbous

Herbs & Plants: Wheat, grains, corn, sunflower, calendula, hops, mint, rose, heather, meadowsweet, apple, ginseng, sandalwood, frankincense, grape leaves, fenugreek, hollyhock, aloe

Crystals & Stones: Amber, carnelian, citrine, rutilated quartz, tourmaline, bloodstone

Animals: Farm animals like cows, pigs, goats, sheep, oxen, horses, roosters; also bees

Foods: Fresh bread, berries (blackberries and blueberries), apples, squash, carrots, herbs, cheeses, ciders, sun teas, jellies, wine, beer, mead

Altar Decorations: Grains, corn husks, sheaves of wheat, yellow candles, corn dollies, seasonal fruits and vegetables, sickles or scythes, fresh flowers

Ritual: Gratitude, sacrifice, harvest

Celebration Ideas: Create a Lammas altar, gather the first harvest from your garden, bake bread as an offering, craft corn dollies, share your bounty with others, dry seeds for future planting, bless farming or garden tools

🍂Mabon

Mabon Correspondences:

Colors: red, orange, brown, gold, deep indigo

Moon Phase: Last quarter

Herbs & Plants: Cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, honeysuckle, marigold, Solomon’s seal, passionflower, milkweed, chamomile, sweetgrass, sage, rosemary, myrrh, frankincense, mugwort, pine, rosehips, thistle, tobacco, yarrow

Crystals & Stones: Garnet, red jasper, obsidian, labradorite, moonstone, topaz, citrine, amethyst, amber, lapis lazuli, tourmaline, sapphire, ametrine

Animals: Stags, boars, bears, salmon, horses, geese, blackbirds, owls, cranes, eagles, herons

Foods: Apples, pomegranates, grapes, cherries, corn, squashes, root veggies, grains, breads, nuts, beans, stews, soups, roasted meats, cider, wine, mead, beer

Altar Decorations: Autumn leaves and flowers, acorns, pinecones, grains, red poppies, corn or apple dolls, cornucopias

Rituals: Gratitude, harvesting, grounding, balance, shadow work, protection, divination

Celebration Ideas: Create a Mabon altar, preserve herbs and seeds, make seasonal drinks like wine or cider, offer thanks to the land, craft a besom broom, share meals made from your harvest, reflect on what you’ve received and what you're ready to release.

🎃Samhain

Samhain Correspondences:

Colors: Black, orange, brown, red, white, silver and gold

Moon Phase: Waning crescent and the dark moon

Herbs & Plants: Mugwort, rosemary, nightshade, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, patchouli, sage, allspice, catnip, mullein, wormwood, rue, tobacco, bay, frankincense, mandrake, mushrooms, chrysanthemums

Crystals & Stones: Obsidian, amber, jet, tourmaline, selenite, howlite, smoky quartz, carnelian, opal, iolite, spirit quartz, aquamarine, serpentine

Animals: Owls, crows, ravens, spiders, bats, black cats, and dogs

Foods: Apples, squashes, nuts, meats, stews, pumpkins, turnips, soul cakes, and spiced or mulled drinks

Altar Decorations: Gourds, carved pumpkins or turnips, apples, skulls and bones (ethically sourced), ancestral relics or photos, besoms (brooms), candles, jack-o’-lanterns

Ritual: Ancestor work, protection, introspection, shadow work, and divination

Celebration Ideas: Set up an ancestor altar, leave offerings for the spirits, carve pumpkins, dress in costume to ward off trickster spirits, hold a silent supper in remembrance, light bonfires.

[gobloggirl]

[dreamstars]

[homucifer-ryotan]

People in the UK especially, please don't give your ID to Spotify

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I don't need the chatgpt random algorithm to write emails for me because I already have a custom and 100% flawless algorithm called "writing the exact same three emails with the names changed"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

#1: "hi [landlord], hope you're doing well! [apartment thing] is [broken/a problem]. we need it [fixed/replaced/handled] by [date]. let us know when you'll send someone over so we can be here to let them in. thanks so much, [op]"

#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"

#3: "hi [customer service person], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, [product] [didn't arrive/is broken/wrong color/gave me a rash/poisoned my crops] and I'd like to receive a [refund/replacement]. here is the documentation of the order and photos of [broken thing/wrong thing/my rash/dead crops]. thanks so much, [op]"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

"but op I work in an office I have to write way more emails than you" well that's your fault for working in an office i got nothing to do with that

[perpetualsarcasmmachine]

Writing an email is so easy and I will tell you how it's done. This is the advice is for everyone with an email job, but you can apply it to normal human interaction.

The FIRST SENTENCE is the thing you want the recipient to do. Do not make them guess.

I want to let you know about ... (This email is to inform someone of something not to ask them to do anything)

Could you please do ... (This is a request. You want them to do something).

I'm looking into x and wondering if you can help me (this is also a request but for information instead of an action).

People do not want to read an email and even if they do read it, most people are skimming and not interested. Tell them what you want first, then provide context or other information (when you need a thing is often key). If the email is informational, you can even add "you don't need to do anything, this is just to keep you informed!" People will appreciate not having to figure out what you want from them.

If you can't articulate what you want the recipient to do with the message, you are not ready to email them. I read too many emails where I have no idea what the person wants from me.

Put the most important thing first and everyone will be impressed! AI cannot do this for you because it can't tell what's important! Only you know that, which is why you must write your own emails.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

to everyone who wants help with emails: go through the notes of this post. there are ideas I've never thought of and plenty of scripts for all kinds of situations/jobs

[clockworktea]

as someone with an official Emails Job, the structure I always go over with my trainees is that there are three (3) things you need to get across in every email:

the situation - what is causing you to send this?

examples: thing broke/upcoming deadline/new resource available

your action - nobody likes having everything dropped on them, what are you doing here? (bearing in mind that at work this 'you' can also cover your department/company)

examples: fixed an underlying issue and compiled a list of broken items/arranged to be around to supervise workmen/rescheduled other work/wrote up a wiki page

their action - as above, this is best to frontload but needs to be absolutely clear by the end or why are we even doing this

examples: re-enter incorrect data/book in a 3rd party to fix/clarify expectations/literally just read the email and take in some info

if you can tick those off successfully then congrats, job done, communication achieved, please stop tinkering and putting in too many extra sentences and just press send

[relientk]

okay let's bake a cake 🎂

butter

sugar

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flour

milk

baking powder

vanilla extract

Voting ended onFeb 10, 2023

[rabbitindisguise]

[udekai]

ALT

[raychleadele]

Happy Birthday to Vanilla Extract.

[spicycheeser]

"A marriage ending isn't a failure at all. I spent eleven years with her. We were so in love that we couldn't image life apart from each other. We got our own place, adopted a dog, and supported each other through school. I thought if tow people loved each other enough the rest would fall into place, except... love isn't everything.

And I didn't want to believe that, but we were sitting in counseling one day, talking about our future and I realized we were describing two completely different lives. Where we'd live, what kind of life we wanted, what made us happy. And it hit me that- I love this woman and this woman loved me. And after eleven years of loss, grief, career changes, we were so deeply in love... but we weren't aligned. And I kept thinking 'We just need to try harder. We can find some compromise to make this work,' because that's what you're supposed to do when you love someone, right?

But the reality was, we had just become different people. Her trade school took her in one direction, my graduate degree in another and trying to force us back into who we were five years ago wasn't coming from a place of love. It was coming from a place of fear. Fear that, if this ended, it meant we wasted eleven years. But sitting there across from her, I realized: That's not how love works.

Those eleven years happened. They were real. The dog, our home, showing up for each other through grad school and trade school. I wouldn't change a single thing because loving someone doesn't mean you're meant to stay with them forever. And letting go doesn't erase what you had. We measure marriage by whether it lasts forever or not, but what if we measured it by whether it mattered?

What if we measured it by the love we gave, the life we built, and the people we became? Because love's job isn't to last forever, it's to help you become fully completely yourself, and sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give each other permission to be yourselves, separately. But the dog doesn't know were' divorced. He just gets two Christmases now."

Pulled this from this guy Preston Rakovsky's Instagram (@prestonrack) because it is a beautiful perspective on love, marriage, and relationships in general.

[achillesinhighheels]

I actually have to build the life I want to live.

[iamhavingsomuchfun]

sense of agency is a skill truly........ it takes work convincing yourself that you have to make moves if you dont want life to spontaneously happen to you instead of having some saying in what happens in it and if you have self destructive tendencies on top of that, it takes trust in yourself to almost blindly believe that it actually matters that you have power over your own life

[yuumei-art]

In 2012 I painted the top image: Rise

In 2026 I am saddened to have to repaint this update: Fall

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Autumn afternoon light.

Mt. Fuji, Yamanashi, Japan.

[venusss-planetoflove]

I must create more than i consume

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[artbunnie]

Hey do you remember me 👀

I do ^^ hello and welcome back to the blog

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[ourplague]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[queen-mihai]

There truly are so very many ways to be good

[elbiotipo]

Also I am asking all of you, once again, to learn about ecosystem conservation and restoration instead of wallowing in "we are already past the point of no return" or that it will take "millennia" to restore ecosystems.

You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.

But it works. It's working right now, and when capitalism is replaced by socialism and we stop thinking on short-term gain, when our societies are focused into the common welfare instead of accumulation, it will even work better. Again I could point out to individual examples but instead, I encourage you to learn about ecology. We are well past from the catastrophic "Earth will die and there's nothing we can do" predictions from the 80s. We know what to do, we know it can work.

[elbiotipo]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.

I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.

Are you listening to me?

[2j]